Global demand for meat and dairy maintains the need for soy as animal feed across major supply chains. To be more sustainable, global traders and consumer good corporations should shift towards more environmentally friendly products, says Greenpeace.
Balancing Diets, Carbon, and Nutrition Takes More Than Changing the Menu
Changing eating habits to include more plants and less or no meat is challenging for countries where people still struggle to meet their nutritional needs. Lower carbon diets should be more ambitious to achieve food security.
Wild Crops Boost Food Security in the Sahel
Wild perennial crops, or wild plants that grow all year round, are very resilient to drought in Niger’s Zinder region. Rewild Earth has leveraged that resilience to improve food security for people that otherwise don’t have many food options.
City Council Boosting Food Security in the Big Apple
A new report from the NYC Council spells out solutions to give all New Yorkers equal access to food.
Food Systems Feeding the Next Superbug?
Investigating outbreaks of Candida auris in different parts of the world stirs talks about the abuse of fungicides in crops and increased resistance to drugs in humans and fungi.
WRI Proposes New Sustainable Menu to Feed the World by 2050
New WRI report sheds light on the current and future solutions we can apply to build food security to 10 billion people by 2050 without compromising ecosystems or the climate.
Making Drones Work for Small Farmers
Drones for agriculture are increasingly popular, but technology needs tailoring to small farmers’ needs and diverse crops if UAVs are to take off across the developing world.
New Index Helps Countries Boost Food Systems Sustainability
Countries have generally high agrobiodiversity but need to step up to foster sustainability in food and agriculture, a new index from Bioversity International shows.
To Have and to Throw: Tackling Indian Wedding Food Waste
Culture, rising incomes, and an appetite for global cuisines are fueling massive food waste by Indian weddings.
From Rescued Food to Artisan Bites
Small food business went from serving bread and marmalade to catering high brow events in London using food waste.
Food Doing Good: Putting Sustainability on Plates in the U.K.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association challenges food businesses in the U.K. to take the lead on sustainability by cutting meat, food waste, and single-use plastic from their plates
A Set Menu for Europe? Building a Food Policy that Brings Everybody to the Same Table
The European Union urgently needs a common food policy to build sustainable food systems, says a recent report from the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). This shared policy would provide a common direction for food and farming systems in the Union, which suffer at all levels under the current model of production and agriculture.
